Description

Agar agar chemical powder supplier's in Tamilnadu, Coimbatore Shree Vissnu scientific company. Agar agar can be used as a laxative, an appetite suppressant, a vegetarian substitute for gelatin, a thickener for soups, in fruit preserves, ice cream, and other desserts, as a clarifying agent in brewing, and for sizing paper and fabrics. Agar is commonly used in the laboratory to help feed and grow bacteria and other microorganisms. It acts as a culture that provides nutrients and a place for these items to grow, but since it is indigestible to the microorganisms, they cannot eat and destroy it. Function: Nutrient Agar is a general purpose, nutrient medium used for the cultivation of microbes supporting growth of a wide range of non-fastidious organisms. Nutrient agar is popular because it can grow a variety of types of bacteria and fungi, and contains many nutrients needed for the bacterial growth. An agar plate or Petri dish is used to provide a growth medium using a mix of agar and other nutrients in which microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi, can be cultured and observed under the microscope. ... Other ingredients are added to the agar to meet the nutritional needs of the microbes.